439 Pa. Super. 437 - Commonwealth v. Baer’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably 453 Pa. Super. 294 - In the Interest of B.C. (1996), 439 Pa. Super. 516 - Commonwealth v. Brown (1995)
25 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Pennsylvania v. Mimms · New York v. Class · Commonwealth v. Dugger
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen reviewing the Commonwealth’s appeal from the decision of a suppression court, we must consider only the evidence of the defendant’s witnesses and so much of the evidence for the prosecution as read in the context of the record as a whole remains uncontradicted. Commonwealth v. Elliot, 416 Pa.Super. 499 , 611 A.2d 727 (1992). When the evidence supports the trial court’s findings of fact, we are bound by such findings, and this Court may reverse only when the legal conclusions drawn from these facts are erroneous. Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.